January 2nd

Hello everyone, we have been back home for a week and a 1/2. Today it will be just Samantha and I . Daddy is back to work. I am looking forward to it. I am not sure that she is. I hope that we will do some bonding today. She seems hesitant but she is back to sleep on the recliner so maybe she will be in a better mood when she wakes up. She is talking more now and we get full sentences in English, when she is having a temper tantrum. She started another one early this morning when she realized daddy was gone and I told her if she was going to cry we had to go in the bedroom because people were still sleeping. She turned it off like a faucet and shook her head. I am starting to think the temper tantrums are shows that she puts on and if there is no benefit to her she turns it off pretty fast. Yesterday all of the kids were home briefly. Our close friends had an engagement party that we all went too. There were quite a house full and I thought Samantha did quite well. She sat on Rachael's lap mostly and ate potatoe chips and ham. It is cold here today so I think we will stay home. God Bless you all, Anita